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    Life's too short to leave the important words unsaid!! consider things left unsaid and my thoughts unexpressed that may be valuable to u...& I promise you will have precious time !!!

    Saturday 25 February 2017

    Isn't a God afterall....

    There is a modern saying.
    “Religion is meant by common people as true, by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful”
    You may all astound why she talks about religion now!
    We are all Hindu in our class except one who is a Muslim & this Muslim girl incited me to write on Religion now! She is a tall girl with somewhat dark complexion wearing the Hijab. She possesses good qualities of sharing, caring, and helping. But when it comes to the attitude she shows on others regarding the religion it makes me disquieted. Her belief towards other religion was considered to be inferior as compared to her religion which she thought was superior. This superior feeling made her disrespect other religious practices.

    She used to create a dramatic work and show off during those fasting periods for Ramzan while criticising others gravely. She often expresses the low estimation she has on those who abstains on some special occasions in accordant with Hindu’s culture. Absolutely this attitude of her made you listen to my heart now!

    We may pray to Christ or Ganesha or Allah or any other name we call him by. If I am in trouble & ask for his help, I’m sure one of them will come. But then, how do I know whether the force that helped me was a half-human half-elephant or someone draped in white wearing long hair or someone with no form?????
    We don’t even know who helped us!!

    Would Christ say, “yes, I’m available but you’ve always prayed to Allah so you have to wait till he gets free” and just leave you in distress?????

    Rather if I were dying on the road & let’s say I’m Hindu by birth, would I refuse to be rushed to the hospital by a person from the Islamic faith?
     Would I just rather die, or lie there in the hope that another Hindu would come to my succour?
    What if he just walks fast, not wanting to get involved in a police case? Or perhaps, I would rather be run over by a Hindu bus driver! Really!????

    Lord Jesus Christ ever attends to those who worships Ganesha & Ganesha bails out people of the Islamic faith & Allah his benevolence touches every life, irrespective of which religion they follow. For it’s only us “humans” that discriminate; A god that discriminates isn’t a god after all. We must understand that we may be divided but god is one.
    One thing that never fails to make me proud of our nation is the secularism. We are born in the land where Dr.Abdul kalam, a secularist in true sense was born. Maybe her immature thoughts or superiority complex, I don’t really understand. 
    I didn't post this to comment on any issues that happened. This is my heart’s unspoken words and nothing else!


    With smiles...
    (Investing myself completely in the art of living) 



    Saturday 11 February 2017

    CGPA vs Water purifier

    Results for AU-affiliated colleges were announced yesterday! My GPA was 8.8  for last semester and as of now, my CGPA is 8.5!

    Kicked the gate for it to open, walked fast! My father entered the hall loudly talking to someone on the phone call showing his outrage. After disconnecting the call, he threw the phone on the sofa and screamed, ”Maha! Fetch me some water”

    My mom came with the glass of water from the kitchen. “The water purifier was under repair for the past two weeks & still it is”, she screamed and kept the glass hardly on the teapoy that the fully filled glass became one-fourth empty.

    I was doing my own business somewhere by the corner of the hall swinging in the jhoola & I promise...I really don’t know how my CGPA is related to that water purifier under repair. He yelled at me,” Ravi uncle’s daughter has got 9.2 CGPA and is now placed in TCS, while you had 8.8 once, then 8.6 & now 8.5 & all you do is swinging in the jhoola  & turning the channels. Neither you watch something nor let us watch” and stared at me as if the water purifier is gonna work efficiently if I get 9.2.

    I slowly got up, switched off the TV & locked myself in the room.
    Do you all know something? My father was the one who taught me to be competent, able-minded & noble-hearted. He used to tell me, “Being a good human being, but not competent isn’t enough. Being competent but not a good human being is not acceptable. The need is for a good human being who is also competent. You must be able-minded & noble-hearted.”
    He was the one who raised a question in me, “When ‘this AND that’ is possible, why should I settle for ‘this OR that’?

    He was the one who made me realise that there is no point in being a mere bookworm while all that I need in my life is the Holistic development. I still remember the words he spoke to me that night before my first day in college. He said like...
    "A singer who also knows to communicate well is always a better singer than who knows only to sing. That’s Shankar Mahadevan’s edge- a great singer who is also a good communicator. A cricketer who is also good at relating with other people is certainly a better player. That’s Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s edge- a good cricketer who is also great in relationships.A student who knows four languages has an advantage over those who know only three languages.  That’s why Indian students always do well in America. Indian students have the edge of knowing more than one language. If you want to be able-minded, if you want to be competent, if you want to have an edge over the rest, you have no choicesleft than to develop yourself in multiple intelligence. Those who develop multiple intelligence are always spotted in a crowd. So, this year as you enter your college life, not only focus on your academic brilliance but also focus on developing yourself in multiple intelligence."
    He told me like this & now changing his principles for that damn repaired water purifier. May be his anger on frustrated expectations he had on me or that caller whom he was showing his outrage or that one –fourth water spilt on the teapoy or me swinging in the jhoola or the inability to grab the remote from me, made him shout at me.
    I know anger is a short-lived madness. But, I think it’s better for me not to come out of my room until the water purifier gets repaired!

    With smiles...
    (Investing myself completely in the art of living)




    If nothing goes right, I sleep